Albanian

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Derivative of sy.[1]

Adjective

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syk

  1. black patches around the eyes (usually for animals such as sheep or rams)

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  1. ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “stërqokë”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 406

Middle English

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Noun

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syk

  1. Alternative form of sych

Norwegian Bokmål

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Etymology

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From Danish syg, from Old Norse sjúkr, from Proto-Germanic *seukaz.

Adjective

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syk (neuter singular sykt, definite singular and plural syke)

  1. sick, ill
  2. diseased

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Old Tupi

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Etymology

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Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *t͡ʃɨk, from Proto-Tupian *t͡ʃɨk.[1]

Pronunciation

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Verb

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syk (first-person singular active indicative asyk, first-person singular negative active indicative n'asyki, first-person singular gerund gûisyka, noun syka) (intransitive)

  1. to arrive at; to reach [with -pe ‘somewhere’]
    Ka'ape asyk.
    I arrived at the forest.
  2. to reach; to approach [with esé or ri ‘someone’]
    Synonyms: erobyk, erosyk
  3. to arrive; to come [with esé ‘some time’]
  4. to attain; to equate; to reach [with esé or upi]
  5. to end; to finish
    Synonyms: moaûîé, mondyk, mombab, pab
  6. to complete
    Synonyms: mopor, moaûîé
  7. to elapse

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  • Old Tupi had three distinct verbs that translated to arrive, depending on the route taken: gûasem or syk when arriving by land and îepotar when arriving by water. With the evolution of the language and further contact with Portuguese, syk took the role of gûasem in Língua Geral, and by the 19th century the land–water difference no more existed.

Conjugation

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Descendants

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  • Nheengatu: syka

Verb

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syk (first-person singular active indicative aîoxyk, first-person singular negative active indicative n'aîoxyki, gerund syka, noun syka) (transitive)

  1. to touch
    Synonyms: atõî, byk, pokok
  2. to rub
    Synonyms: kytyk, momemûã

Adverb

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syk

  1. totally; completely
    Synonyms: opabĩ, pab, pabẽ, pakatu, tekatueté

References

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  1. ^ Beatriz Carretta Corrêa da Silva (2010) Mawé/Awetí/Tupí-Guaraní: relações linguísticas e implicações históricas (in Portuguese), Brasília: UnB, page 408, line 154

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